With Saudi, Israeli and Turkish interests aligning against it, the Kremlin seems in deep water -- could it lose its last naval base in the Mediterranean?
Russia's anti-choice campaign touting the protection of "life" is a smoke screen for State/Church philosophies insuring power and control over women's bodies.
Delhi’s recent foreign military and nuclear orders appears quite unprecedented. And it would be wrong to leave it at this, and fail to notice other peculiar coincidences.
Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, Basic Books. February 11, 2010.
America finds itself cash poor, and to a great extent, power follows money. A new book explores the grave consequences this loss will have for America's place in the world.
Cheney and Rumsfeld's script was never supposed to develop like this. Instead of US Big Oil getting the lion's share in Iraq, its top competitors turned out to be big winners.
Nick Baumann, Mother Jones Online. November 9, 2009.
Igor Panarin warns that the U.S. will splinter into separate states controlled by foreign powers in 2010. Conservative activists think he may be on to something.
Boeing is the third largest U.S. government contractor, with some $24 billion in annual federal contracts. It is also a major recidivist corporate crook.
Richard Silverstein, Tikun Olam. September 15, 2009.
Russian and Israeli sources say the cargo ship Arctic Sea was carrying Russia's most sophisticated air-defense system system, which could protect Iranian facilities from attack.
Obama is doubling down in Afghanistan with more troops deployed now than the Soviets ever had, at a time when public support for it is sinking like a rock.
Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
